In an earlier draft of the script, Spock had died in the first act in a shocking demise that the movie's producer Harve Bennett compared to Janet Leigh's early death in Psycho.

In the seventh edition of Baby and Child Care, published a few weeks after he died, Spock advocated for a bold change in children's diets, recommending that all children switch to a vegan diet after the age of 2.

While the Bird-of-Prey bridge was a completely new design, other parts of the craft's interior were also redresses ; the computer room was a modification of the reactor room where Spock died in The Wrath of Khan.

Having died heroically in Wrath of Khan, Spock placed his katra in the mind of his friend Leonard McCoy for safekeeping.

The pair learn that before he died, Spock transferred his katra, or living spirit, to McCoy.

* May 2-Benjamin Spock ( died 1998 ), pediatrician, writer.

Spock died while saving the Enterprise during the events of Wrath of Khan, but before his death transferred his katra to Dr. Leonard McCoy ( see Vulcans for more information on this ability ).

For Picard however, the tone of the mission has changed — he must now inform Spock that his father has died.

In the new timeline, history has recorded that Spock died at age 7 undergoing the Kahs-wan ordeal on Vulcan.

When the ship is crippled and Spock is kidnapped by a Vurian, an ancient and extinct race that died out during the time Zefram Cochrane completed test trials of the first Warp Drive, Kirk must go where no man has gone before to save his ship and his friend.

Seven died in an initial attempt to rescue Spock from the Devidians, but was pulled from the timeline by the Aegis prior to the moment of his death after Exana ( another agent of the Aegis, who was romantically involved with Seven ) stopped the Devidians with the aid of Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.

Spock is checked out by Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy in sickbay where he explains he was nauseated when he felt the combined shock and terror in the minds of 400 of his fellow Vulcans aboard the Intrepid as they died.

Even before Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan opened in June 1982, the media reported that Spock, who died at the end of the film, would return in the sequel.

The remastered Original Series episode " Amok Time " featured Shikahr in the background as Spock beams up at the episode's end, and the remastered version of " The Ultimate Computer " replaced the Botany Bay-style Woden with an automated grain carrier from " More Tribbles, More Troubles.

In " Unification ", the Romulan Senator Pardek shared a friendship with Ambassador Spock lasting at least 80 years.

) Spock mentioned intelligence about this treaty when the Klingon ship appeared on the viewscreen, at the outset of " The Enterprise Incident.

Spock, who notes that " commanding a starship is first, best destiny ", dies at the end of Star Trek II.

Kirk and Spock clash at Starfleet Academy, but, over the course of the movie, Kirk focuses his " passion and obstinance and the spectrum of emotions " and becomes captain of the Enterprise.

The protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial as Dellinger and Dr. Benjamin Spock gave speeches to the mass of people.

In the TOS episode " This Side of Paradise ", Leila Kalomi hints at having had a special relationship with Spock some six years earlier, though Spock's remark that he hoped his half-human blood would see him " spared " the agony of pon farr in the episode Amok Time suggests that their relationship was more casual.

Likewise in the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the regenerated adolescent Spock went through at least two pon farr episodes at accelerated speed.

According to the DVD commentary of the film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, actors Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley, portraying Spock and Saavik respectively, spoke their lines in English, and later dubbed in alien dialogue ( at least partially designed by linguist Marc Okrand ) that corresponded with the movements of their mouths in the scene.

As such, in this autobiography Nimoy maintains that in some meaningful sense he has merged with Spock while at the same time maintaining the distance between fact and fiction.

An honor Nimoy did not receive, however, was the naming of asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock after his character, at least not directly.

Spock, promoted to captain, is commanding officer of the Enterprise at the beginning of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ( 1982 ).

The film also depicts Kirk and Spock's initial clashes at Starfleet Academy, and the gradual development of their friendship based on shared mutual respect, what the elder Spock calls "... a friendship that will define both in ways cannot yet realize.

Writer Samuel A. Peeples told Roddenberry these attributes made Spock too alien, and suggested " he should at least be half-human and have the problems of both sides ", believing the human traits made the character more interesting and able to comment on the human condition more believably.

Spock studied literature and history at Yale, and also was active in athletics, becoming a part of the Olympic rowing crew ( Men's Eights ) that won a gold medal at the 1924 games in Paris.

For most of his life, Spock wore Brooks Brothers suits and shirts with detachable collars, but, at 75, for the first time in his life, Mary Morgan got him to try blue jeans.

Spock advocated ideas about parenting that were, at the time, considered out of the mainstream.

In 1967, Spock was to be nominated as Martin Luther King, Jr .' s vice-presidential running mate at the National Conference for New Politics over Labor Day weekend in Chicago.

* Audio: Benjamin Spock speech at UC Berkeley Vietnam Teach-In, 1965 ( in RealAudio and via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center )

" Many of the openings featured non-celebrities, but some featured stars from TV shows, most of which broadcast over CBS, such as The Bob Newhart Show and One Day at a Time, as well as other characters with a connection to the network, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, dressed as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock ; characters from the Peanuts cartoons ; and Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

" In Season 2, Episode 1 (" Amok Time ", 1967 ), Captain Kirk tells Spock, " As one of Finagle's Laws puts it: ' Any home port the ship makes will be somebody else's, not mine.

At the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ), Spock is no longer in Starfleet, having resigned and returned home to pursue the Vulcan discipline of Kolinahr.

At the end of the film, the young Spock opts to remain in Starfleet, while his older self stays in the altered universe to aid the few surviving Vulcan refugees, as Nero had destroyed Vulcan, Spock's home planet.

They built a home in Esculapia Hollow, Arkansas, on Beaver lake, where Spock and Morgan would row in olympic training rowing shells early in the morning.

Spock and McCoy modify a photon torpedo to home in on the exhaust emissions of Chang's vessel, with the help of scientific equipment that was being used to study gaseous anomalies.

" Among the elements added for home video were a briefing with the Federation president where Admiral Cartwright and Colonel West unveil their plan for rescuing Kirk and McCoy, and a scene where Spock and Scott inspect the torpedoes.

Another example is " Spookyfish ", an episode of South Park, in which the " evil " universe double of Cartman ( who is pleasant and agreeable, unlike the home universe's obnoxious Cartman ) sports a goatee, like the " mirror " version of Mr. Spock.

The Search for Spock was released on multiple home video formats, including VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray high definition discs.

Kirk stalls the mirror-Spock while his crew search for a way home, but Spock is suspicious.

Spock requests a leave of absence to his home planet of Vulcan after displaying irrational behavior.

At first, this proceeds smoothly: Spock assumes the identity of Selek, and is welcomed into the home of Sarek and Amanda Grayson.

Spock scans it and learns that it is an energy field that, if activated before the Enterprise is repaired, means they " will not see home again.